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Re: Some (small) c++ compilation profiling data (oprofile)


On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 05:32:13PM -0400, Will Cohen wrote:
> The APIC may not be in the mobile Pentium III processor, but somewhere 
> in the supporting chipset used on the Dell Inspiron 4100 there is an 
> APIC. The /var/log/messages has entries indicating it is finding APIC 
> and the profiling I am doing is definitely using the Pentium III 
> performance monitoring hardware, not the RTC based sampling.

That's the global APIC. Local APIC is a different thing.

But when it works then it is ok of course.

You can check if you have a local one by looking at /proc/cpuinfo
for apic in the flags line. Normally p3-mobile doesn't have one and
oprofile may know this.

-Andi


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